I was doing a little of both with you, each to his own on the colt, S&W has alway been #1 for me and as the song says " Thats my story and I'm sticking with it" . The colt six gun was the real McCoy, to many in that area to talk about, the 45 1911 was off the browning design, the ar was bought , so how many did they design from the ground up like S&W. If it wasn't from S&W the winchester 94 may have never came about. I can take a smith down to 3.5 pounds double action without a miss fire on federal primers and 5 pounds on CCI primers. we both were right and wrong .